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If you are in the early part of your career, my advice for you would be to keep your options much wider. You will be in a better place to identify your potential as you progress in your career, much similar to a practical experience as compared to the textbook knowledge. If you are already an experienced professional then my advice would be somewhat different. You should go after the job that doesn't feel like a job but something you love doing (... and then you never have to work again, as the quote goes). One of the important factors of loving what you do is to continuously learn new things because learning expands your limit of thinking and then the ability to organically take up new challenges. My other advice to anyone on the success path is to believe in self-potential. It is possible to achieve anything but only as long as we believe in our efforts and keep trying. If we don't fail then we didn't try, so it is perfectly fine to fail so long as we learn from failures.
Career path
Global Head of Technology
TUI
Started 04/2020 to PresentPortfolio Delivery Manager - Integration and APIs
TUI Northern Region (Now TUI)
From 10/2019 to 04/2021Middleware Delivery Manager
TUI UK & Ireland (Now TUI)
From 08/2013 to 09/2016Company
What do you like about your job and the company?
The current position offers me opportunities to challenge myself every day. This alone is enough for me to get up each morning and get going. Since the challenges come in varying degrees, the role offers me continuous learning almost on the job. It is hard to choose the learning courses randomly unless for a purpose and my role serves me with such a purpose. Going beyond personal job satisfaction, my role gives me continuous motivation to develop members of my team. It is a rewarding experience to coach talented individuals and encourage them to develop in their roles or beyond. Our customers are the greatest motivation. They generate ideas for us in the form of expectations and help us innovate. When we make them smile after delivering their much-loved product, it gives me and the team a great sense of accomplishment.
Greatest achievements
I have always enjoyed teaching others in one or the other way in different circumstances. This is partly because sharing the knowledge with others perfects my own learning and also gives me a sense of pride. I do this in several ways to fit the situation. While coaching is not the main part of my role, I have always believed that it is an essential quality of a leader. They build trust and create a sense of belonging. I also take opportunities and volunteer in mentorship activities. One of the examples of my volunteering is being a Code Club mentor at a Primary School. It gives me immense joy to watch children imagine big. Any act of volunteering fills me with happiness and more energy to engage at work.
Alina D
Developer
Top Insider Advice
Take on challenges head-on. Everyone has failed at some point and everyone will fail again. Just take time to reflect on the failures. It's the only way we can really grow as humans and evolve into the best possible version of ourselves. Having an environment that allows you to fail and learn gracefully is vital to being able to deliver the best possible work we can. This is something I really enjoy in my day-to-day work: I've never felt afraid to ask all my questions, no matter how stupid I felt they were and I was always met with respect and dignity.
Besiana J
Top Insider Advice
My simple career advice is - if you are faced with a great opportunity, take the risk and go for it!
Katharina P
Data Scientist
Top Insider Advice
I think you should be aware that communication and presentation skills, motivation and the will to grow and further develop your abilities are not only buzzwords but skills that are often underestimated but quite relevant for the work of a Data Scientist. I often have to explain and present the approaches I used and the results I obtained on various levels of granularity to different audiences. For example, when discussing with other data scientists in the company I need to be able to explain how a method works in detail. In contrast to that I have to focus on the business implications of my modeling choices when talking to the business colleagues or to managers. For the latter audience it is usually more relevant to understand the general idea of an approach rather than the details of how it is working. It is not easy to switch between these settings and to find a proper way of communicating to each of these different kinds of audiences but keep in mind that this will be a relevant part of your work as a Data Scientist. Additionally, lifelong learning is not only a buzzword at TUI. You should be motivated to actually stay up to date with the current state of the art Machine Learning procedures and bring motivation and initiative to continue your learning process. As a team, we are deeply involved in decisions that concern the way we work and the tools we use. Therefore, we have to keep track of new developments in the world of Data Science and Machine Learning and need to be willing to adopt new methods or tools if we expect them to be useful for our daily work.
